The 155 at-risk cats that were flown from overpopulated animal shelters in Florida to Massachusses and New Jersey were adopted as part of NBC Universal Local’s Clear The Shelters campaign. 

Before Noodle the Pug and his “Bones and No Bones Days” were a viral TikTok sensation, Noodle was just another dog who needed a home. Jonathan Graziano talks about Noodle’s unexpected adoption story and the exciting life with a rescue dog.

About 200 dogs and cats from overpopulated animal shelters in Florida and Louisiana will be flown to Massachusetts and New Jersey and put up for adoption in August.

Animal shelters across the country are once again teaming up with NBC and Telemundo stations to find loving homes for pets in need with the Clear The Shelters pet adoption and donation campaign.

NBC and Telemundo owned and affiliated stations will partner with local animal shelters and rescues from August 1 to August 31

For 16 days, a couple searched through the woods and trudged in the swampy marshland at Barnegat Bay along the Jersey Shore in an effort to find their lost 3-year-old pup named Chunk — and were relieved when state troopers rescued him after finding him swimming in the bay.